MBS Fly Up Day!

We had an amazing visit to MBS today!!  Everyone met their new teacher as well as some new classmates from Porter's Point School.  Each student has a friend from our class in their new class, which relieved a lot of anxiety!  Right before we came back to UMS, all the second graders met in the gymnasium and did the "Paper Shake" dance with Mr. Hunt.  We had a great time and everyone is very excited for third grade!  Here is a picture of us just before we boarded our bus!

In your child's home/school folder today is a letter with their new teachers name!

Happy "almost" third graders!!

Honey Bees

Yesterday, we had our last Four Winds opportunity of the year.  Many parent volunteers worked together to put on a puppet show, and presented three different activites all about honey bees!  The play was wonderful but I forgot to bring my camera. 

:ater in the afternoon, the parents came to our classroom to present three different activities. The first activity was examining a deceased honey bee up close with a magnifying glass.  It so was interesting, I forgot to take pictures again!! Shame on me!!

The second activity was dressing me up like a honey bee with all of the important "bee parts".  The class had A LOT of fun with this activity!

In the last activity, the students pretended to do the "honey bee shake" to tell their honey bee friends where the pollen was. They had to find piles of pom-poms and hide one in their hand.. After they did their dance, their group had to figure out what color pollen theywere hiding.

It was a great day and everyone was amazing! Thank you so much Four Winds!!

A human honey bee!

 



Here is a group of pollen!

 

 



  

Seth is performing his "dance" to tell his honey bee friends where the pollen is!

All About Beavers!

Today we had another great Four Winds lesson all about beavers! ) They are incredibly smart animals!   (A big THANK YOU goes out to Jenn Kerner for teaching us each lesson!)  Here are some photos showcasing our learning!

We dressed Paxton like a beaver complete with a paddle tail, fur, flipper feet, big teeth for chewing, and sticks to make her dam and lodge.  Isn't she a cute beaver?

 



Everyone worked with partners to build their own beaver dam.

Pajama Day

We have had a great ending day to our Spirit week!  We all celebrated today with comfortable pajamas and our cherished stuffed animal friends.  We read with our friends, took a spelling check-in with our friends, made math butterflies with our friends., and even took our friends to library.  The hightlight of our day was when we had a picnic lunch on the cafetaria floor!  Here are some pictures from our amazing day!  Enjoy vacation and I will see everyone when school reopens on Monday, April 29th!

Colchester District Art Show

Colchester will be hosting an art show to highlight all of the talented students in our district! Here is the art show information!

• The art show runs from Tuesday, May 7th through Friday, May  10th at CHS.
• The art show will be open from 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. each day.
• There will be a reception on Thursday, May 9th from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.  Refreshments will be served.

Hope to see you there!

Fill A Bucket Day!

Today was "Fill A Bucket" Day at UMS!!  Everyone received a bucket and we wrote meaningful compliments to many of our friends!  Make sure you read the slips in your child's bucket, they are so heart warming! We had a wonderful day and everyone felt so happy when they left!  Here are a few pictures from our day! 

 

We are busy writing compliments to our friends!

 

We are making sure our compliments are heartfelt and thoughtful!

 

Here we are with our buckets!

Hat Day

Today was hat day at UMS! We all had a great time wearing our hats! Here is a few pictures of us having some fun!